Nechirvan Barzani visits Iran for discussionsOn Sunday, Nechirvan Barzani, the leader of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, arrived in Tehran to engage in discussions with high-ranking Iranian authorities
Many analysts agree that even new vote will not bring the favorable results for al-Sadr and the best way is dialogue with the rivals. Alwaght- Iraq's political stalemate has upgraded to the next level with the Sadrist Movement chief Muqtada al-Sadr bringing his supporters to the streets and oppo ...
The new Iraqi PM is taking strong steps to fight corruption with parliamentary support but challenging factors are unavoidable. Alwaght- Financial and administrative corruption is one of the pillars of the challenges Iraq has been suffering from over the past two decades. It has wasted billions of d ...
Jordanians staged sit-ins on Friday and activists called for more protests over fuel price rises that have added to a cost-of-living squeeze, a day after riots in a southern city left one police officer dead, witnesses and security sources said. Jordanians staged sit-ins on Friday and activists call ...
The rise in the dollar price is driven by smuggling as well as the American push to restrict Iraqi foreign trade, especially with Iran. Alwaght- Value of Iraq's national currency, dinar, slump against the US dollar triggering currency strains in the Arab country. The value loss has started about ...
Iraqi factions have called for checks to interventions by the American ambassador to Baghdad. Alwaght- The activities of US ambassador to Baghdad in Iraq are brought in spotlight of the local media and politicians who argue that Alina Romanowski’s back-to-back meetings with various figures and ...
Oil revenues from Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region will be transferred to a bank account under federal government supervision for the first time since 2002, state news agency INA reported on Thursday, citing the prime minister’s media adviser. Alwaght- Oil revenues from Iraq's semi-autono ...
Influential Iraqi cleric may want to shift his approach and return to politics a few months to early elections. Alwaght- Though Iraq’s political atmosphere has been relatively calm and less tense over the past weeks and months, some analysts think this situation is the lull before the storm, e ...
Iraq’s oil revenues are deposited in a Fed’s account in New York and transfers are made only after US ratification. Alwaght- Every year, with the arrival in Iraq of the heat wave that, by the way, has come much earlier than the summer in recent years, power and water supplies become the top obsessio ...
Voices in Iraqi parliament are rising against the security pact with the US and the latter’s failure to withdraw forces. Alwaght- While the US uses all of its political, economic, and security levers to entrench itself in Iraq and continue its long-term military presence in the country, Iraqi groups ...
Iraq will restrict all its internal commercial and other transactions to the Iraqi dinar instead of the US dollar as of next year, the country’s central bank said. Alwaght- Iraq will restrict all its internal commercial and other transactions to the Iraqi dinar instead of the US dollar as ...